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Using Common Sense Media I created the curriculum for our Digital Citizenship piece.

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Safety and Security -
Unit 1: Safety- Students learn about the rewards of connecting with others online, but also how to recognize and handle inappropriate contact. They learn why certain online relationships are risky, and how to avoid these types of manipulative situations.
Lesson : Risky Online Relationships


Unit 2 - Security - Students develop strategies for managing their online information and keeping it secure. They explore how individuals and companies collect their data, and learn to guard against identity theft, phishing scams, and other exploitive practices.
Lesson 1: Scams and Schemes
Lesson 2: Does It Matter Who Has Your Data?
Digital Citizenship - Students reflect on how to behave ethically online.
Unit 1:Digital Life - Students explore the role that digital media play in their lives and for our society. They are introduced to the concept of digital citizenship and digital ethics, and consider how they can harness the power of digital media for good.


Lesson 1: My Online Code Students are introduced to the concept of digital ethics and citizenship, and reflect on how to be ethical community members when they are online.
Lesson 2: Digital Life 102 Students explore the role of digital media in their lives and in society by keeping a media log of their media use and reflecting on it.
Unit 2: Privacy and Digital Footprints - Students learn to manage their own privacy and respect the privacy of others. They reflect on how information they post online can affect getting into college or other future opportunities, as well as how it might impact others.
Lesson 1: Private Today, Public Tomorrow - How can you respect the privacy of others online? Students reflect on their responsibility to protect the privacy of others when posting information about them online.
Lesson 2: College Bound - How can information you post on the Internet affect getting into college or future opportunities? Students learn about the impact of their digital footprint on their future.
Unit 3: Connected Culture - Students reflect on what they can do to strengthen online relationships and communities. They also consider how anonymity and public posting can intensify bullying, hate speech, and abusive relationships online.
Lesson 1: Breaking Down Hate Speech - How can you create a community culture in which hate speech is unacceptable, both online and offline? Students learn how hate speech affects individuals, groups, and communities.
Lesson 2: Taking Perspectives on Cyberbullying
  • Essential Question:How does online cruelty affect the people involved?
  • Vocabulary: perspective, target, offender, bystander, upstander
  • Materials Needed: “Taking Perspective Student Handout, one copy per group of six students.
  • Using teaching plans,__http://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/9-12-connectedculture-takingperspectives-lessonplan.pdf__, Day 1, Introduce (5 minutes), Teach 1: Introduce Characters (5 minutes), Teach 2: Taking Perspectives (15 minutes) PPT #20
  • Day 2, in groups fill out perspective sheets. (Watch clips again if you need to.) PPT #21
Unit 4: Self-Expression and Identity - Students think critically about how they present themselves online. They consider what their profiles, posts, and avatars convey to others about them, and reflect on whether this image is "true" to who they are.
Lesson 1: Who Are You Online? - What kind of person are you online, and how is this similar to or different from your offline self? Students explore how they represent themselves online, reflecting on what it
Unit 5: Respecting Creative Work - Students reflect on how to respectfully give and get credit in an age of remixed work. They consider opportunities for creating using new media tools, and debate thorny ethical topics ranging from copyright to licensing.
Lesson 1: Rights, Remixes, and Respect - What are different perspectives of the ethical dimensions on remixing and appropriating other people’s work? Students apply their knowledge of copyright and fair use by debating.
Lesson 2: Copyrights and Wrongs - How does copyright affect our choices in using images? Students learn about respecting creative work through learning about copyright and licensing.
Research and Information Literacy -
Unit 1: Searching - Students learn effective, efficient strategies for conducting everyday searches. They learn how to plan out a search, and why it is important to use precise keywords and to carefully evaluate search results.
Unit 2: Research and Evaluation - Students think critically about how information is collected, reshaped, and shared online. They consider the upsides and downsides of collective intelligence and photo alteration, and how these practices impact online communities.
Lesson 1: Retouching Reality - Students evaluate the upsides and downsides of digital photo manipulation. They explore how digital image editing can be a creative activity, but also deceptive in the context of
Lesson 2: Collective Intelligence - Students explore the benefits and drawbacks of online collective intelligence. They analyze how information is pooled on Wikis and user review sites.
Using teaching plan, __http://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/9-12-evaluation-collectiveintelligence-lessonplan.pdf__, Day 2, Teach 2: Tell Your Stories (15 minutes), Teach 3: Tell Your Stories (15 minutes) PPT#34